%0 Journal Article
%T Social y culturalmente ambiguos: criollos-mestizos de Tucum¨¢n, siglo XVII
%A Noli
%A Estela
%J Memoria americana
%D 2010
%I Scientific Electronic Library Online
%X this article analyzes the influence of indigenous societies on the descendants of spanish conquistadors, known as criollos. the subject is approached through a case study which shows how a faction of san miguel de tucum¨¢n town council (cabildo) tried to prevent the admission of juan jord¨¢n de trejo as deputy governor (teniente de gobernador). he belonged to the meli¨¢n de leguizamo y guevara family, owners of encomiendas in taf¨ª, but his lower lineage made him served as the town's administrator. specific characteristics of his intercultural persona resembling a mirror image -referred to as spanishization or westernization of the indians- will be studied, including his fluency in the indigenous language, his knowledge of pre-hispanic societies and their territories and his illiteracy. his role as interethnic mediator (passeur culturel), and the advantages and drawbacks such a profile presents at different junctures, for social and political participation in the dominant group, will also be analyzed.
%K crioll
%K mestizo
%K tucum¨¢n
%K early colonialism.
%U http://www.scielo.org.ar/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1851-37512010000200004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en